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KINGSTON, Kingston Industrial Works, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 179, 28.5mm, 6.67g (Lyall –); Palace Amusement Co (1921) Ltd, uniface brass Cycle Park check by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 154, 38mm, 7.64g (Lyall –); Cinema Company of Jamaica Ltd, Carib Theatre, brass Cycle Park checks by P.C. Vendryes (2), square, stamped B 30 both sides, 38mm, 9.20g (Lyall –), round, stamped 398 on front and 911 on back, 38mm, 10.74g (Lyall –); Tropical Cinema Co, uniface brass Cycle Park check by P.C. Vendryes, back stamped 10, 38mm, 7.48g (Lyall –); Unimotors Ltd, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 106, 28.5mm, 7.35g (Lyall –); WESTMORELAND, West Indies Sugar Co, uniface brass, by P.C. Vendryes, stamped WISCO 1853 FROME, 38mm, 11.63g (Lyall –) [7]. Generally very fine, mostly now very rare
£50-70 Provenance: All bt R.A. Brandon 1989.
Kingston Industrial Works, 1 Darling street, manufacturers of iron and steel products, founded by Vernon Cohen Henriques. The Palace Amusement Co (1921) Ltd, proprietor Audley Morais, controlling interest bought by J. Arthur Rank, 1947. Carib Theatre, Slipe road, built by the Cinema Co of Jamaica in 1938, bought by the Rank Organisation in 1950. Tropical Cinema Co, established by Russell Graham in 1949. Unimotors Ltd, motor factors and distributors, Halfway Tree road. West India Sugar Co, Frome, Westmoreland, was the venue for a major strike over pay in May 1938 during the building of a giant sugar factory where 1,000 workers walked out. The police were called and four workers were killed in the disorder that followed. The pay dispute reverberated around the island, leading to multiple demonstrations in Kingston over the following weeks and to the arrest of Alexander Bustamante, among others
TOKENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS 1218
KINGSTON, A.L. Malabre & Co, uniface zinc coaling tallies (2), stamped A.L.M.C, second also stamped F, both 25mm, 2.03g, 2.21g (Lyall 348, 349; Ford 653; Tankersley 352) [2]. First very fine, second fine
£40-50 Provenance: First bt R.A. Brandon; second bt R.A. Brandon 1988.
A.L. Malabre & Co Ltd, shipping agent and coal contractor, a company formed out of the remnants of William Titley & Co, shipping agents, established 1826, proprietor William Titley (†November 1851, aged 70), by a Titley employee, Arnold Malabre (†1879). The Malabre company trades today from Second street, Newport West
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KINGSTON, Myrtle Bank Hotel, uniface brass Dollar, c. 1870-80, name above value, 23mm, 3.83g (Lyall 157, this piece; Prid. –; Byrne 868, this piece). Tarnished, otherwise about very fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen
£300-400
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 868.
Myrtle Bank Hotel, built by James Gall (1834-1900) in 1870 and named after his grandfather’s residence in Edinburgh
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KINGSTON, Kingston & Liguanea Water Works Co, brass Three-Halfpence, KINGSTON AND LIGUANEA WATERWORKS COMPY around FOUNDED 1848, rev. RETAIL SALES 8 PAILS 1 1/2D E. LEVY COLLECTOR, 34mm, 11.64g/12h (Lyall 194; Prid. 143; Ford 626 [= Tankersley 324]) Obverse fine, reverse mediocre, very rare; very few specimens known
£100-150 Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon 1984.
The Kingston & Liguanea Water Works Co, incorporated in 1842, began negotiating to lease, pending purchase, part of the Hope Estate from the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1848. The negotiations, which concluded in 1850, resulted in the company acquiring over 600 acres of land, with buildings, for £6,215. Within a short space of time pipes had been laid from the Hope river and Kingston’s citizens could enjoy running water for the first time since 1777. The Jamaican government bought out the company in 1871 and Edmund Levy is recorded as the collector in 1878
1217
KINGSTON, Thomas Lundie & Co, brass (2), both 1844, THOMAS LUNDAY, etc., rev. paddle-steamer, 22.5mm, 4.46g/12h (Lyall 196; Prid. 144; Ford 627; Tankersley 325), THOMAS LUNDIE, etc, rev. similar, 23mm, 5.19g/12h (Lyall 197; Prid. 145; Ford 627; Tankersley 325) [2]. First very fine, second fine, both tarnished
£60-80
Provenance: First bt R. Zander February 1966; second bt D. Engelbert June 1966.
Thomas Lundie & Co, 3 Water and Peter lanes, ironmongers and manufacturers from 1837, acquired a second steamship, named the Earl of Elgin, built by Lairds in Birkenhead and launched in June 1844. The vessel arrived in Jamaica on 19 August 1844 and was pressed into service carrying passengers and freight around the island. The vessel was sold to the Haitian government in 1847
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KINGSTON, William Smith, copper Penny [1829], legend, rev. arms and supporters, 29mm, 9.16g/6h; copper Halfpenny [1829], legend, rev. value, 21.5mm, 4.47g/6h (Lyall 162, 163; Prid. 132, 133; Spink Tn1, 4) [2]. First about extremely fine, second fine
£60-80 Provenance: *First bt G. Hearn 1965; second bt D. Engelbert 1966.
William Smith, a merchant with interests in Jamaica and England, ordered his tokens from Matthew Robinson Boulton in Soho in 1829
1221
KINGSTON, Verley & Robinson Ltd, square aluminium Three-Halfpence Loaf, VERLEY & ROBINSON LTD, stamped 4040, rev. value, 24mm, 1.72g/12h (Lyall 211; cf. Prid. 155; Ford 628; Tankersley 327). Surface corrosion, otherwise very fine and very rare
£150-200 Provenance: Bt R.A. Brandon 1984.
Verley & Robinson, bakers, flour and saw millers, established before 1847, proprietors John Verley, Louis Verley and Charles A. Robinson, became a limited liability company in 1906 but had ceased trading by c. 1920
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